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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
chime
    n 1: a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells
         that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral
         instrument [syn: chime, bell, gong]
    v 1: emit a sound; "bells and gongs chimed"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chime \Chime\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chimed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Chiming.] [See Chime, n.]
   1. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
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   2. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to
      correspond; to fall in with.
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            Everything chimed in with such a humor. --W. irving.
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   3. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed
      by in or in with. [Colloq.]
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   4. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in
      rhyming. --Cowley
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chime \Chime\, v. i.
   1. To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a
      set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
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            And chime their sounding hammers.     --Dryden.
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   2. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
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            Chime his childish verse.             --Byron.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chimb \Chimb\ (ch[imac]m), n. [AS. cim, in cimst[=a]n base of a
   pillar; akin to D. kim, f. Sw. kim., G. kimme f.]
   The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3.
   [Written also chime.]
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chime \Chime\ (ch[imac]m), n. [See Chimb.]
   See Chine, n., 3.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chime \Chime\ (ch[imac]m), n. [OE. chimbe, prop., cymbal, OF.
   cymbe, cymble, in a dialectic form, chymble, F. cymbale, L.
   cymbalum, fr. Gr. ky`mbalon. See Cymbal.]
   1. The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
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            Instruments that made melodius chime. --Milton.
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   2. A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in
      the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by
      hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking
      of the hours or their divisions.
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            We have heard the chimes at midnight. --Shak.
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   3. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
      "Chimes of verse." --Cowley.
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Thesaurus Results for Chime:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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